SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 18 submissions in the queue.
SoylentNews
The world's first-ever hiking boots to use graphene have been unveiled by The University of Manchester and British brand inov-8.
Building on the international success of their pioneering use of graphene in trail running and fitness shoes last summer, the brand is now bringing the revolutionary technology to a market recently starved of innovation.
Just one atom thick and stronger than steel, graphene has been infused into the rubber of inov-8's new ROCLITE hiking boots, with the outsoles scientifically proven to be 50% stronger, 50% more elastic and 50% harder wearing.
How long before graphene-infused tires hit the market, too?
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 43 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday December 18 2018, @10:21PM
Sure. And even low-grade graphene sections are likely to be much larger than your typical graphite flake. Chemically though, they are exactly the same thing - in fact peeling tape off of graphite blocks was one of the early ways to produce small sheets of graphene. The only difference is scale - though as the saying goes, quantity has a quality all its own.